The political theory of possessive individualism
Subtitle: Hobbes to Locke
By: C.B. Macpherson ; [with a new introduction by Frank Cunningham]
Contributors: Cunningham, Frank, 1940-
Edition: Wynford ed.
Series: The Wynford Project; Wynford Project
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780195444018
Subjects: Liberalisme; Levellers; Individualism; Niveleurs (Mouvement politique); Individualisme
Notes: Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [302]-303 and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.  The roots of liberal-democratic theory; title: Problems of interpretation; title: Hobbe : the political obligation of the market.  Philosophy and political theory; title: Human nature and the state of nature; title: Models of society; title: Political obligation; title: Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory; title: The Levellers : franchise and freedom.  The problem of franchise; title: Types of franchise; title: The record; title: Theoretical implications; title: Harrington : the opportunity state.  Unexamined ambiguities; title: The balance and the gentry; title: The bourgeois society; title: The equal commonwealth and the equal agrarian; title: The self-cancelling balance principle; title: Harrington's stature; title: Locke : the political theory of appropriation.  Interpretations; title: The theory of property right; title: Class differentials in natural rights and rationality; title: The ambiguous state of nature; title: The ambiguous civil society; title: Unsettled problems reconsidered; title: Possessive individualism and liberal democracy.  The seventeenth-century foundations; title: The twentieth-century dilemma; title: Appendix : Social classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648.